Rate of deaths, illness among black residents alarms cities
(World News USA)

CHICAGO - Chicago´s mayor pledged an aggressive public health campaign aimed at the city´s black and brown communities Monday amid alarm that an overwhelming number of African American residents were among the people to die of COVID-19 in early data. Black residents accounted for 72% of deaths from COVID-19 complications in the city and 52% of positive tests for the coronavirus, despite making up only 30% of the city´s population, according to the city´s public health agency. Public health experts in Chicago said the trend was unsurprising to anyone familiar with decades-old barriers to health care in the geographically divided city; residents of the city´s South and West sides historically...